Identification and characterization of RNA guanine-quadruplex binding proteins

  • Guanine quadruplex (G-quadruplex) motifs in the 5′ untranslated region (5′-UTR) of mRNAs were recently shown to influence the efficiency of translation. In the present study, we investigate the interaction between cellular proteins and the G-quadruplexes located in two mRNAs (MMP16 and ARPC2). Formation of the G-quadruplexes was confirmed by biophysical characterization and the inhibitory activity on translation was shown by luciferase reporter assays. In experiments with whole cell extracts from different eukaryotic cell lines, G-quadruplex-binding proteins were isolated by pull-down assays and subsequently identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry. The binding partners of the RNA G-quadruplexes we discovered included several heterogenous nuclear ribonucleoproteins, ribosomal proteins, and splicing factors, as well as other proteins that have previously not been described to interact with nucleic acids. While most of the proteins were specific for either of the investigated G-quadruplexes, some of them bound to both motifs. Selected candidate proteins were subsequently produced by recombinant expression and dissociation constants for the interaction between the proteins and RNA G-quadruplexes in the low nanomolar range were determined by surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. The present study may thus help to increase our understanding of the mechanisms by which G-quadruplexes regulate translation.

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Author:Annekathrin von Hacht, Oliver Seifert, Marcus Menger, Tatjana Schütze, Amit Arora, Zoltán Konthur, Peter Neubauer, Anke Wagner, Christoph Weise, Jens Kurreck
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-342356
URL:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4041461/
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gku290
ISSN:1362-4962
ISSN:0305-1048
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24771345
Parent Title (English):Nucleic acids research
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Place of publication:Oxford
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2014/04/25
Date of first Publication:2014/04/25
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2014/08/05
Volume:42
Issue:10
Page Number:15
First Page:6630
Last Page:6644
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
HeBIS-PPN:365673161
Institutes:Biowissenschaften / Biowissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
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